Re: Loadable module in Ada.

[Mark Lorenzen <mark.lorenzen@gmail.com>]

On 3 Dec., 10:36, Steven Shack <stevensh...@stevenshack.com> wrote:
> I'd like to create a loadable module in an Ada program. I've searched
> around, but can't
> seem to find any examples of this. Say I've got some calculation or a
> driver and I'd like to have
> multiple different versions of it with the same interface. I'd like to
> be able to load and replace
> these modules at runtime.
>
> In C I'd do this with pic code, dlsym and function pointers. I can't
> seem to find the equivalent
> in Ada. Can anyone help me out?
>
> Thanks

I'm not sure what you mean by loadable module, but if you mean dynamic
linking at run-time, you should take a look at this very interesting
article:
http://www.adacore.com/wp-content/uploads/2005/04/dynamic_plugin_loading_with_ada.pdf

Note that you will of course still need support from the OS, so there
is no pure Ada
solution, just as there is no pure C solution (the dl* system calls
just happen to
have a C API).

- Mark